Morning Report: 2008-05-18
Geography will tear us apart, as Obama expounds on regional politics in these 57 states; meanwhile, an internet legend recounts leaving Russia's atrocity exhibition for unknown pleasures abroad, and the President envisions a new order in the Middle East.
Bush promotes democracy in the Middle East. Bush is sounding like Bush again, and Morning Report thinks it's about time. But where's the action? AP via MSNBC:
"Too often in the Middle East, politics has consisted of one leader in power and the opposition in jail," Bush said in remarks prepared for delivery before the World Economic Forum on the Middle East. "The time has come for nations across the Middle East to abandon these practices, and treat their people with the dignity and respect they deserve."
The AP article complains that Bush didn't criticize Israel enough.
Google's Brin speaks out on Russian anti-Semitism. Ha'Aretz: 'Distress due to anti-Semitism was the main reason his family left Russia, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told TheMarker in an interview over the weekend. Brin, 34, was in Israel for President Shimon Peres' presidential conference "Facing Tomorrow," and visited Google's Israeli offices as well. ...' Brin's parents left Russia in the late 1970s, just before the gates to emigration were slammed shut. Read the whole article at the link.
Another geography lesson from Obama. Explaining his likely loss to Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Barack Obama says, "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle." Power Line notes: 'Obama does not note that Illinois and Kentucky are close enough to each other that they share a border. The Illinois-Kentucky border was the subject of the 1991 Supreme Court case Illinois v. Kentucky. Arkansas is not far from Kentucky, but it is separated from Kentucky by Tennessee and Missouri.'
Commentary. IraqPundit:
Not long ago, some opinion polls showed that al-Qaeda's support among mainstream Muslims was plummeting. Bin Laden's associate said "'I call upon the Muslim nation to fear Allah's question (at judgement day) about its failure to support its brothers of the Mujahedeen (holy Warriors), and (urge it) not to withhold men and money, which is the mainstay of a war',". Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri has criticized Muslims for failing to support Islamist insurgencies in Iraq and elsewhere in a new audiotape posted on the Internet.What's a terrorist leader to do? Well, often when Arab or Muslim leaders get desperate, they trot out the Palestinian cause. Bin Laden is no different, based on his most recent taped message.
The terrorist leader had originally called on "Muslims to stand with the Iraqi people against the United States." Thanks to the unremitting slaughter of innocents, that didn't seem to work, based on Zawahiri's own words.
It appears his advisers have told Bin Laden about the mounting failures of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Most recently, "Around 1,100 people have been arrested during the first four days of a government crackdown on Al-Qaeda jihadists in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, the defence ministry said Saturday."
So what can he do? Focus on Palestine, of course. ...
With this latest vow to fight for Palestine, Bin Laden thinks he can get some respect the way Saddam Hussein and others did before him. That sure turned out well, didn't it?
The freshman senator from state of Illinois is a radical Marxist with many suspicious connections. He has not accomplished any thing in his life to be fit/experienced to run a pizza parlor in Chicago, let alone a country that is in midst of a brutal struggle against the criminal Islamonazis. I don't understand how any sane person in his/her right mind could vote for such a hypocrite, radical two-faced politician. Any ways, if he's elected, all our hopes for any type of meaningful change in Iran will fade away for a long long time to come. Is Sen. Hussein Obama willing to reward the regime mistreatment of its people by not bringing it up in his so-called talks with them? Hussein Obama speaks a lot about his desire to have talks with the Iranians but he never says how he wishes to do so. What's his plan to stop the criminal mullahs from obtaining the WMDs? I feel sorry for those misinformed people who would like to see him in the White House in 2009. They'll be as much sorry as those who voted for Dhimmi Carter back in 1976. Let's hope this junior senator with shady connections won't be the next POTUS. He'll be a tragedy for the United States.
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